Ice Cream Kitty
Artifact Creature — Food Cat Mutant
, Sacrifice another creature or token: Draw a card. Activate only as a sorcery., 
, Sacrifice this creature: You gain 3 life.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BG
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Price
- $0.18
- EDHREC rank
- #17827
Ice Cream Kitty enters as a 0/4 that taps to Freeze a permanent — a repeatable soft lock stapled to a surprisingly resilient body. The cost is real: you need snow mana to activate it and it does nothing the turn it enters, so it demands a deck built to support it. Gyome, Master Chef is the canonical home, where both food production and snow synergies line up cleanly.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Gyome, Master Chef
Gyome, Master Chef generates Food tokens every turn, and Ice Cream Kitty rewards exactly that kind of incremental resource production by giving the deck a repeatable tap-down effect that opponents have to answer before it locks out key permanents.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Ice Cream Kitty is a Commander card front to back — the tap-to-Freeze effect only matters in a multiplayer environment where slowing down one opponent while you build board state is meaningful and where the game goes long enough to extract multiple activations. In competitive 1v1 formats like Modern or Pioneer, a 0/4 that taps a single permanent at snow-mana cost is too slow and too conditional to compete with proactive threats. Pauper and Legacy have no practical interest here either, since the card's payoff requires the slower, grindier game that Commander uniquely provides. Play it in Commander, ignore it everywhere else.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.18 bulk tier
At $0.18, Ice Cream Kitty is pure bulk — the kind of card you pull from a draft chaff box rather than buy deliberately. Bulk prices on niche Commander cards can tick up modestly if a relevant commander spikes in popularity, but at this price there's no financial calculus to run: if you want one, just buy one.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.